 | Lawrence Johnstone Burpee - 1926 - 722 pages
...Commons, 1883-1896. Standard Time. In 1879 Sandford Fleming published a paper on "Time-reckoning and the selection of a prime meridian to be common to all nations" in the transactions of the Canadian Institute, and with quiet persistence urged his views upon learned... | |
 | Günther Winkler - 2013 - 344 pages
...(1884), Protokolle I —VIII nit 4 Anhangen SUTHERLAND JOHN DOUGLAS SIR, Papers on Tine — Reckoning and the Selection of a Prime Meridian to be Common to all Nations. Transmitted to the British Govemnent by His Excellency the Governor-General, Canada-Secretary of the... | |
 | American Metrological Society - 1889 - 948 pages
...for private circulation in 1876-77. The other papers issued by this gentleman are " Timereckoning and the Selection of a Prime Meridian to be Common to all Nations," printed in 1879; "The Adoption of a Prime Meridian," printed in 1881 ; '• Paper on the Adoption of... | |
 | 1916 - 566 pages
...to more successful issue the consideration of some practical scientific problems. One of these was the selection of a prime meridian to be common to all nations in connection with the reckoning of time. Greenwich time had long been the standard time in Great Britain,... | |
 | Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - 1881 - 348 pages
...in the Sewage Farm Competition, 1879. LAUOHTON, J. К., М.А., FMS — Paper on Time-reckoning and the selection of a prime meridian to be common to all nations, by S. Fleming.— The Law of Storms and the Heaving-to Tack. LEWIS, EW — Lectures on the Geology... | |
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